Brilliant.

This is not a Christian phrase. This is a variation on one of the Delphic Maxims, from Apollo. "The gods help those who help themselves".

This story takes on a whole lot more meaning if you understand the historical context and connotations behind sacrifice back in those times.

To be entirely fair, I know some Conservative, Right-wing Christians that I owe a lot of help to as they do live by this. They overlap a bit with outright Evangelicals. Its only when you hit the modern Fundies that you run into this weird rejection of any part of the Bible that Jefferson selected for his answer to his…

Wait, does that make Deuteronomy some of the basis for some debt limitation statutes?

The money changers were historical forebears to our modern banking system. I don't remember or have links to any of the specifics right off-hand, but you can pretty much trace a direct line of a sort of institutional lineage from the money changers and their system and the systems we have now. Think of them like a…

One might consider that in today's environment, participation in the bad system too far encourages it. I can see where they're coming from. Unlike your cheating example - an accidental use of false equivalence - what we're looking at here is a product that works based on a corruption of supply and demand. Occupy would…

I am Gnostic and thus your comment ruffles my feathers enough for me to bring that up.

I do not understand how this thing is legal.

I handle conflicts by labeling them "stupid", "immature", "lacking executive functioning", or "none of the above".

Incidentally despite my own self-observations dictating ~8 hours of sleep as optimal for general purposes, Sleep As Android keeps telling me 7 and a half to 7 hours and 40 minutes can be better in some ways. Considering I have to be ultra-meticulous about my sleep due to my narcolepsy, this 7 hours information is…

...Are you sure about that?

I will take this opportunity to point out that you basically live on Pandora, and so everything is trying to kill you.

You know not everyone is straight, right?

Dearest Mark,

That you have referred to a Bud Light as "cool, refreshing" has now lost you all credibility, possibly forever.

Boys, a public service announcement. Not every gal will send you a vag pic, just the bitches. This seems to be the flavour many boys choose nevertheless.

Psh please. I'll bet its only a trilby that he got from Walmart.

The issue with explaining it comes from the scads of people who think that Hobby Lobby was trying to deny all contraceptive coverage. Of course, with the idiocy of the SCOTUS decision I can see how people might think that.

Yes, it does, provided that there is no profit involved. It's fair use.